Kate and Alex own a successful Manhattan used furniture store and want to enlarge the apartment where they live with their teenage daughter Abby, but before they can expand, they must wait for the current tenant, cranky, ninety-one-year-old Andra, to die.

Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...